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Avocados are the most valuable fruit exported from Mexico to the US, worth $1.5 billion in 2016 (Table 1). Michoacán accounted for 83 percent of the avocado export sales, and got higher prices for its avocados than other Mexican states because fresh avocados can be exported to the US from Michoacán. Jalisco, whose acreage is increasing rapidly in anticipation of winning permission to export fresh avocados to the US, has a third of its acreage not harvested in 2016 because it had not yet come into production.